#marital infidelity

• Adultery — The breach of marital fidelity through voluntary sexual relations with a person other than one's legal spouse; marital infidelty. As an adjective, the term describes a person committing this act or qualifies a relation, bond, or behavior that violates the marriage vow. Although decriminalized under modern penal codes (including the Romanian text), adultery remains a classic legal ground for fault-based divorce under civil law and a severe moral breach within ethical and religious codes.
• Adulterine — Originating from or relating to adultery; born from an extramarital relationship where at least one parent was legally married to another person. In historical civil codes, the term defined a restrictive legal status for children (adulterous child), limiting their inheritance rights. Under modern family law, these legal discriminations have been completely eradicated, though the word retains ethical, religious, or sociological values.
• Adulterine — The feminine singular form of the adjective 'adulterin'; originating from or relating to an act of adultery or marital infidelity where at least one partner is legally married to another person. In the history of civil law, the term qualified a relationship, filiation, or descent (adulterous bond) subject to severe legal and inheritance restrictions, inequities that have been completely eradicated under contemporary modern legislation.
• Adultery (old form) — An archaic, literary, or historical legal variant of the modern noun 'adulter' (adultery), denoting the act of a husband or wife violating the vow of marital fidelity through intimate relations with another person. The term is frequently encountered in 18th and 19th-century legal codes and old biblical translations, utilized to emphasize the moral, religious, or penal severity of marital unfaithfulness.